NAME¶

modimount — mounts a Mac OS disk image file

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

modimount is a utility to mount a Mac OS disk image file

modimount is part of the libmodi package. libmodi is a library to access Mac OS disk image formats

source a Mac OS disk image file mount_point the directory to serve as mount point

The options are as follows:

-h

shows this help

-v

verbose output to stderr, while modimount will remain running in the foreground

-V

print version

-X extended_options

extended options to pass to sub system

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# modimount image1.sparseimage /mnt/modi
modimount 20260902

DIAGNOSTICS¶

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

SEE ALSO¶

modiinfo(1)

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libmodi/issues

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2012-2026, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.